Combined cigarette holder and extinguisher



W. COBB. .COMBINED CIGARETTE HOLDER AND EXTINGUISHER.

-APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, 1919.

Patented July 26, 1921.

1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINDSOR/COBB, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALTFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO B. BLACKINTON & CO., OF, NORTH ATILEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, A COPALRT'NERSHIP COMPOSED 0F ROSWELL BLACKINTON, WALTER B. IBALLOU, HOWARD M. IBALLOU, MYRA A.

FREEMAN, AND HELEN G. CUTTER.

COMBINED CIGARETTE HOLDER AND EXTING'UISHER To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WINDSOR COBB, a citizen of the United States, and resident of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Cigarette Holders and Extinguishers, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to a smokers article intended primarily for use as an extinguisher of lighted cigarettes or cigars while adapted at the same time to serve as a holder and-also as an ash-tray if desired.

It is the object of the invention to rovide a simple and convenient device w ich shall insure the quick and convenlent ex tinguishment of a lighted cigar or cigarette to prevent further emission of smoke or fumes which result whenthe lighted stub is laid on an ordinary ash-tray.

To this end the invention comprises a device comprising a base or support of any convenient form having an upwardly projectin body portion or boss formed with a pre erably flared socket open at its upper end into whiclf. the lighted end of the cigarette may be thrust, the diameter of the socket approximating to the diameter of a cigarette in order to pinch the lighted end, exclude air and prevent the emission of smoke.

A further feature consists in formin the boss or socket containing member wit recesses or notches for supporting a lighted f cigarette temporarily. The base may be section showin' stub inserted conveniently formed to serve as an ashtraiy. n the accompanying drawings I have illustrated the preferred form embodying the principles of this invention, in which Figure 1 is a plan view; Q Fig. 2 is a central cross section;.

' Fig. 3 is a side elevation partly in cross or'extiif ishinent;

Fig. 4 is a. side elevation showing the device in use as a temporary cigarette holder for a lighted cigarette. v I

In the practice of the invention according to the form illustrated in the'drawings the device consists primarily of a base porv Speciflcationof Letters Patent.

Application filed June 28,

in dotted lines a cigarette r Patented July 26, 1921. 1919. Serial No. 307,424.

tion a'adapted to rest on a table or other fiat surface from which base portion rojects upwardly a vertical boss I) provided with an interior vertical socket c.

Said socket is open at its upper end and closed at its lower end and is referably flared toward its upper end botlii for the purpose of securing a pinching action upon the lighted end of the cigarette ,and also for accommodating the device to cigarettes or cigars ofdiiferent diameter. With this end in view the bottom of the socket will be sufliciently narrow in diameter to pinch the smaller sizes of cigarettes so as to exclude air and prevent the escape of smoke.

The raised boss I) is provided with scallops or notches around its top edge or rim one or more pair of notches being diametrically opposed to form a ck or rest for temporarily supporting a ighted cigarette.

The'base a may be of any suitable form but in the drawings it is shown provided with a short annular flange or rim a adapted to serve the pur ose of an ash-tray.

The device may be ormed in any desired or convenient manner but as actually shown in the drawin it is struck up from sheet metal so as to orm a hollow annular boss I) with the socket member drawn downward from the center. by suitable forming dies, but, of course, it. would be equally possible to cast the same entire.

vWhat I claim is:

1. A cigarette holder and extinguisher comprising a supporting base 'portion, an upwardly projecting boss formed with an internal vertical socket open at its top and flared from the bottom to the top, the diameter of 'said socket at some intermethe diameter of a cigarette whereby a. cigarette when inserted with its lighted end downward is pinched to exclude air and revent the escape of smoke fumes thererom, substantially as described.

comprising a supporting bottom or base portion and a vertically pro ecting boss =cliate point being approximately equal to 2. A cigarette holder and -ext inguisher rmed with an interior socket open at its up er end and closed at its bottom, said soc et being approximately of the diameter of a cigarette or the like to .pinch the 111- serted lighted end thereof to exclude air and revent escape of smoke fumes, substantlally as described.

3. A smokers article of the class de' tially as described.

4;. A smokers article of the class described embracing in its construction av tray-like base whose middle portion is formed with an upwardly projecting boss provided with an interlor flared socket open at its upper end and closed at its bottom, the upper edge of said boss between the socket and its periphery being scalloped"- as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 21st da of June, 1919.

VI NDSOR COBB. 

